Harry Augustus Garfield

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Illustration of James and Henry following the death of their father.
Illustration of James and Henry following the death of their father.

Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield (October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942) was an American lawyer and academic. He was the son of U.S. President James A. Garfield and the brother and law partner of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. At the age of 17, his father was shot down by assassin Charles Guiteau as he and his 15-year-old brother James watched in horror.

Harry A. Garfield (tallest boy) and siblings.
Harry A. Garfield (tallest boy) and siblings.

Garfield became a law professor and eighth president of his alma mater, Williams College in Massachusetts, and taught at Princeton University as well. While at Princeton, he befriended future president Woodrow Wilson. In 1917, President Wilson asked him to run the nation's Federal Fuel Administration, where he was responsible for coordinating the production and price of fuel during World War I.

He married Belle Hartford Mason and had four children.

He is buried in the faculty cemetery at Williams College.

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  • Doug Wead, All the President's Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families, Atria Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-4631-3
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